Research Methods for Science (Record no. 295897)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781107621992
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 507.2 MAR-R
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Michael P. Marder
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Research Methods for Science
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Cambridge ; New York
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Cambridge University Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2011
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent viii, 227 pages : illustrations
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note 1. Curiosity and research: Course goals -- Kinds of questions -- Research methods for science -- Putting methods together -- 2. Overview of experimental analysis and design: Hypothesis-driven experiments -- Measuring values -- Improving experiments -- Safety and ethics -- 3. Statistics: Motivations for statistics -- Reducing many numbers to few -- Probability distributions -- Connecting data and probability distributions -- What happens to averages as N increases -- Central limit theorem -- Comparing many experimental measurements -- Data with many values of independent variable -- Other statistical tests -- 4. Mathematical models: Ingredients of mathematical modeling -- Estimation -- Linear regression -- Matching arbitrary functions to data -- Fourier transforms -- Deterministic modeling -- 5. Scientific information: Writing a proposal -- Writing scientific papers -- Scientific figures -- Giving scientific presentations -- Searching for scientific information -- Obtaining scientific articles -- Reading scientific papers.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. An introduction to the design, analysis, and presentation of scientific projects, this is an essential textbook for undergraduate majors in science and mathematics. The book discusses experimental design, statistics, mathematical modelling, and preparing scientific papers and presentations.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Research -- Methodology. Science projects. Forschung.
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Koha item type Book
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        Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Processing Center 17/09/2015   507.2 MAR-R DCB2732 17/09/2015 19/07/2019 Book